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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
vance, on the good effects he would see derived to Great Britain and to the colonies from his firmness and candor in conducting the American business. Pownall's Dedication to George Grenville of the second edition of his Administration of the Colonies. Still less did the statesmen of England doubt the result. No tax was ever laid with more general approbation. Considerations, &c., 109. The act seemed sure to enforce itself. Unless stamps were used, marriages would be null, chap. XI.} 1765. April. notes of hand valueless, ships at sea prizes to the first captors, suits at law impossible, transfers of real estate invalid, inheritances irreclaimable. Of all who acted with Grenville in the government, he never heard one prophesy that the tax would be resisted. Grenville's Speech of 26 Jan. 1769, in Cavendish, i. 202. He did not foresee the opposition to the measure, and would have staked his life for obedience. Grenville's Speech, 5 March, 1770, in Cavendish, i. 496.